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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






2. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






3. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






4. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






5. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






6. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






7. What a story or play is about.






8. A character struggles against some outside force.






9. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






10. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






11. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






12. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






13. The main character of a literary work.






14. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






15. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






16. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






17. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






18. A short saying with a moral.






19. Broken down acts.






20. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






21. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






22. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






23. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






24. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






25. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






26. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






27. A three-line stanza.






28. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






29. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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30. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






31. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






32. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






33. A four line stanza in a poem.






34. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






35. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






36. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






37. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






38. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






39. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






40. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






41. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






42. A poem that tells a story.






43. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






44. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






45. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






46. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






47. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






48. The organizational form of a literary work.






49. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






50. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.